Interia.pl to launch new ISP service in third quarter

Internet portal Interia.pl has declared an extremely successful Q1 of 2003 and expects to gain a 5%-10% market share as Internet Service Provider after launching the new service later in the year. The estimated annual value of the sector now targeted by Interia is around zł. 520 million. Last week the company announced that it had signed a contract with Energis Polska which would allow it to provide its own dial-up number for clients. The company would like to start offering the new product in the third quarter of 2003 and is to embark on one or two nationwide advertising campaigns. "We have kept our promise to keep Interia's results growing every quarter. We have recorded a two-digit growth in advertising revenues in comparison with Q1 of 2002," said the company's chairman Tomasz Jażdżyński, though he would not disclose specific figures. (Parkiet, p. 4) J.K.